Love me little, love me long, Is the burden of my song; Love that is too hot and strong Burneth soon to waste; Still I would not have thee cold, Not too backward or too bold; Love that lasteth till 'tis old Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]

Bold from being armed with faith. [ Motto ]

A dog is bold on his own dunghill. [ French Proverb ]

Fortune and Love befriend the bold. [ Ovid ]

Prolonged endurance tames the bold. [ Byron ]

Fortune gives her hand to a bold man. [ Proverb ]

The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold,Held up their chalices of goldTo catch the sunshine and the dew. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,Tobacco, balloons, and steam.Are little events that have come to passSince the days of the old regime.And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,I'd give - though it might seem bold -A hundred years of the Golden AgeFor a year of the Age of Gold. [ Henry S. Leigh ]

Daffodils,That come before the swallow dares, and takeThe winds of March with beauty; violets dim.But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,That die unmarried ere they can beholdBright Phoebus in his strength - a maladyMost incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds,The flower-de-luce being one! [ William Shakespeare ]

He alone can claim this name, who writesWith fancy high, and bold and daring flights. [ Horace ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;Youth is nimble, age is lame;Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;Youth is wild, and age is tame.Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus. [ Apuleius ]

Be bold! first gate;Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold, second gate;Be not too bold! third gate. [ Spenser, Faerie Queen, Book III, Inscription on the Gates of Busyrane ]

Bold at the council board, but cautious in the field. [ Dryden ]

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. [ Roger Ascham ]

A bold fellow is the jest of wise men, and the idol of fools. [ Proverb ]

He is indeed a bold navigator who fearlessly ventures upon unknown seas. [ E. P. Day ]

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. [ Lavater ]

That caressing and exquisite grace - never bold, ever present - which just a few women possess. [ Owen Meredith ]

The little babe up in his arms he bent, who with sweet pleasure and bold blandishment 'gan smile. [ Spenser ]

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not bold, than of the office which one fills. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. [ F. Quarles ]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]

There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. [ Ovid, in the name of Daedalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings ]

Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances. [ Guizot ]

Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. [ Chapin ]

The way of the superior man is threefold - virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. [ Confucius ]

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. [ Talleyrand ]

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. [ Horace Mann ]

Now, my young friends to whom I am addressing myself, with reference to this habit of reading, I make bold to tell you that it is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. [ Anthony Trollope ]

The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]

How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. [ Henry Melville ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]

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